Welcome to the on-line home of Robert J. Wiersema, writer, bookseller and reviewer.

The author of Before I Wake (2006), The World More Full of Weeping (2009) and Bedtime Story (2010), Robert J. Wiersema is also a respected books journalist, and the event coordinator at Bolen Books in Victoria, BC.

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12th Nov 2013

I posted the photo above on Facebook and Twitter this morning, more as a message to myself than any sort of external communication. As if to say, “Okay, it’s time.” And it is. Well past, in fact. I started ostensibly …

01st Oct 2013

I received a question on Twitter the other day, and I thought, rather than cramming it into 140 characters, I would answer it here. The question was: “how long did it take you to write Before I Wake, and was …

A frank, funny, and inventive blend of biography, music criticism, and memoir told in thirteen tracks.

As he enters his sixties, Bruce Springsteen remains a paragon of all that is cool in the world of rock. He’s a genuine voice of the people, the bastard child of Woody Guthrie and James Brown, and an elder statesman who has inspired generations of bands....